A new teaching-learning sequence to promote
secondary school students' learning of
quantum physics using Dirac notation

Supplementary materials

Authors

Fabian Hennig, Kristóf Tóth, Moritz Förster, Philipp Bitzenbauer

The worksheets are available at:

• Worksheet 1: Photons
• Worksheet 2: Introduction into quantum formalism I.
• Worksheet 3: Interference of single photons
• Worksheet 4: Introduction into quantum formalism II.

The GeoGebra simulations are available at:

• Beam splitter: https://www.geogebra.org/m/jmxhck52
• Phase: https://www.geogebra.org/m/ppbgcmee
• Michelson interferometer (both laser and single photons): https://www.geogebra.org/m/z7qfrqzv
• Michelson interferometer (single photons): https://www.geogebra.org/m/pwesq9dh

The real interactive screen experiments (developed by (Bronner et al.):

• Click here to download the package.
• The simulation can be started via the Flashplayer in the map (flashplayer_30_sa_debug).
• In the Flashplayer, click on "File" then "Open..." and click on "Browse".
• The probabilistic behaviour of photons through a beam splitter can be achieved by the following path: open the map "www.QuantumLab.de" -> "english" -> "random" -> "1BS" -> "random_div.swf".
• The Michelson interferometer can be achieved by the following path: open the map "www.QuantumLab.de" -> "english" -> "interference" -> "Photon" -> "Interferenz_Photon.swf".